Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com writes:

Perhaps the idea of the newbie mailing list isn't such a bad idea, although one wonders when a question stops being a newbie one and becomes a non-newbie one.......?

Oh, I think while we're quite tolerant here, it'll all work nicely. It's easier for non-newbies to help newbies than newbies to help newbies, if that makes any sense.

The intolerant or just plain overwhelmed can join alug-announce now. Anyone else want to write items for that (unedited) "newsletter"? I'll copy any articles which appear on the web site to it.

I compared learning linux to baking a cake for the first time with no recipe book and no idea what any of the little ingredient packets are the other day.

awww ;-( And I thought the ingredients lists were enough...

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Oh, I'd've suggested Postilion, as I've been using that to good effect

I gave up on pine (can explain Sun if u like) and installed mutt instead. Many thanks all. Take me quietly to one side on sunday and have a word in my ear about list protocol if I'm out of order on the gossip front.

Nah, just keep it clear on who's speaking where, unless it's you.